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"I hope you don't have kids" could have two completely different meanings: 1) I hope you're not a parent at the moment. and 2) I hope you never conceive! Th
by mahmud 17y ago
"I hope you don't have kids" could have two completely different meanings:
1) I hope you're not a parent at the moment.
and
2) I hope you never conceive!
The first is a lament over the fate of any children that the addressed might have parented. The later is wishing ill fate upon the addressed.
- randallsquared 17y agocould have two completely different meanings Ah, I actually had missed the sense in which yardie might have meant "I hope you don't already have kids", and they've actually said that that's how it was meant (approximately), so I was a bit out of line, above.